The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-05
CHOICE EXTRACTS.
Pardon all but thyself. Geo

u druOn all out InySel1.-de0T9c
Herbert.
What if Gods great angels, whose waiting,
love,
Beholdeth our pitiful life below,
From the holy height of their heaven above,
Couldn't bear with the worm till the wings
should grow. Mrs. Whitney,
The foundation of domestic happi-
ness is faith in the virtue of women;
the foundation of political happiness is
confidence in the integrity of man; the
foundation of all happiness, temporal
and eternal, is reliance on the goodness
of God.-Lander.
"A vascilating walk, a backwardness
to take bold and decided line, read
mess to conform to the world, hest
tating witness for Christ, a lingering
tone for religion-all these make up a
sure recipe for bringing blight upon
the garden of your soul.-BiSbop Ryle
Without the New Testament, the
Old Testament would labyrinth with
out clue, syllogism without cor
clusion, riddle without a solution, a
torso without head, moon without n
sun, since Christ is the proper inter-
prefer of the Old Testament elitzSch.
In all your enjoyments, therefore,
be moderate. Set your heart in the
love of God and the faith of Christ,
and difficulties will disappear. The
inner life in you will assimulate to the
divine everywhere, and return its own
blessed and consecrating influence to
all your work and all your amuse-
ments.-PrinlcipaE Tullocb.
% what load of struggle and
distress
Falls off before the cross, The
feverish care;
The wish that we were other than
we are;
The sick regrets; the warnings
numberless.
-Chauncey Hare ToaOnShend.
Right breads not the scrutiny of
the Investigator. Truth can stand the
monday brightness. The Bible can
endure the electric flash. The friends
of Jesus need not fear when the citadel
of their faith is stormed. Christianity
is invincible. The severest tests and
most hostile criticism only bring into
bolder relief its verify, its beauty and
its eXcellence.-StdndGrd.
We hear q great deal in these days
about answers to the infidel, about
arguments philosophical historical and
scientific, which shall have the power,
in the hands Of skillful men, of silenc-
ing the antagonist But better argu-
ment, and mightier, than any of
these, an argument that never fails, for
the man who reads your history with
criticism and meets your argument with
argument will bare his head and bend
his neck before the spectacle of holy
and devoted life, that this is true what
ever else be false-that this is of God
whatever becomes of books and insti.
tutions.-Rev. DR.. Notorious.
Why should we save time? Be-
cause we are souls, pent in the body,
living in time but not limited to time,
having temporal experience but
pledged by creation to an eternal des-
tiny. Why should we save time? Be-
cause time is the sphere of opportunity
and duty; because time is Il gift for the
use of which we are responsible to God.
In time we do our work and build our
characters, and accomplish our growth.
Moreover, time is short, and its little
space is subject to deaths invasion.
Who knows when he shall die? We
have all lived year, but who of us can
count with certainty on living another
yearP 1t was an old custom to place in
the hands of II corpse an hour-glass in
which all the sands had run down. But
it were n wiser thing to put an hour
glass in the living hand, that there
might be before the mind in the sink
ing sand symbol of times uncsasing
lapse.-Rev. Philip S. MorOns.